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Anthony Hopkins
"Impressive work from one of Ireland's leading biographers," says the Sunday Business Post (Jan 8, 2006).

Luke Kelly
Michael’s film on the lengendary balladeer Luke Kelly, which outsold even U2, was ranked number two in national DVD music sales for 2006.


December 2007 - Films
Michael Feeney Callan has joined the advisory board of Irish Film America, alongside Jim Sheridan, Paddy Breathnach, Mary McGuckian and others.  The premier IFA event will be staged at the Clarity Theater in Los Angeles
in October 2008.

October 2007 - Films
Michael was awarded a multi-platinum disc for sales of his film, “Luke Kelly, the Performer” on October 4th in a ceremony that also honoured Dubliner Ronnie Drew for his fifty-year contribution to music.


Michael’s son Corey and daughter Paris at the Luke Kelly awards function at the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin.

June 2007 - Books
Michael’s biography of Sean Connery, which has been in print for 25 years, was published again in Finnish by Art House, Helsinki, in June. It has already been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian and simplified Chinese.


Autumn 2008 - Books
Michael’s long anticipated biography of Robert Redford, ten years in the making, has been completed and will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US this year.

Autumn 2008 - Film
Michael's film on The Dubliners called "Before the Before", which features
contibutions from luminaries like Irish President Mary McAleese, was delayed
by illnesses within the band, but will be completed this summer.


President McAleese in conversation with Michael Feeney Callan during the filming of "Before the Before: the Dubliners' Story". Copyright IML Ltd.

Shortly - Art
Michael’s exhibition, “Suburbia” will open at the Blue Leaf Gallery shortly.
See preview visual in section Art.



The definitive biography of Robert Redford.

He has appeared on stage and screen, in front of and behind the camera, earning Academy, Golden Globe, and other awards and nominations for his acting, directing, and producing. His Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking. He is among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation. But only now, with this revelatory biography, will we see behind the Hollywood facade to the surprising and complex man.

Redford made available to Michael Feeney Callan his personal papers: journals, script notes, correspondence, hundreds of hours of taped interviews. Here is his family background and childhood, his rocky start in acting, the death of his son, his star-making relationship with director Sydney Pollack, the establishment of Sundance, his political involvement, artistic successes and failures, friendships and romances. Here is a portrait of a man whose iconic roles on screen (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Natural) and directorial brilliance (Ordinary People, Quiz Show) have both defined and obscured one of the most celebrated, and until now least understood, public figures of our time.

From the Hardcover edition.

Available November 3, 2009.




BOOKS
Michael Feeney Callan has published fifteen books, among them the novel "Did You Miss Me'" and a number of best-selling biographies which have been widely translated, including the recent "Anthony Hopkins".

SCRIPTS

Michael's landmark drama series "The Burke Enigma" was Ireland's template crime series and he has written for the BBC, ITV and American PBS.
DIRECTING
Among Michael Feeney Callan's directing credits are programs featuring some of the world's legendary artists, among them the Beach Boys, Joan Collins, James Coburn and Roger Moore.
ART
A painter for 25 years, Michael Feeney Callan first exhibited in 2002 at Dublin's prestigious Blue Leaf Gallery. He later featured in the inaugural group exhibition for the Pembroke Blue Leaf which was opened by an Taoiseac Bertie Ahern.